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Mixed Media Workshop

Art on 30th @ 4434 30th Street, San Diego

Explore the exciting world of mixed media art and learn to combine various mediums to create unique and captivating pieces. Embrace your artistic potential and dive into an inspring and challenging experience.

(35) All levels 18 and older
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Screen Printing & Hot Foil Workshop

Kiss A Cow Studios @ 4434 30th St, San Diego, CA

This is a creative workshop in screen printing and foil stamping where the participants will design and print on shirts or other fabric. We will provide a soft, tri-blend, nice shirt, v-necked, or crew neck and you may bring other shirts to print on. KAC will also have different shirt styles for you to pick from and order in preparation for printing at a low cost. Day One: We will demo and print a design on fabric and go through the screen printing...

(6) All levels 13 and older
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$99

2 sessions

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Prima Materia Workshop: Learn to Paint in 1 Day

Prima Materia Institute @ 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, San Diego, CA

The Prima Materia Learn to Paint Workshop is a 6-hour immersive, eye-opening workshop that will awaken your creativity and you will see and paint like an artist. You will start and finish 10 paintings, from silhouetted figures in front of a city scene to a decorative bowl filled with colorful fruit plus a seascape complete with boats and seagulls and much, much more. Impossible? Not when you know the secrets to stimulate your right brain and...

(3) Beginner 18 and older
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$297
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Screen Printing: Limited Edition Cards

Kiss A Cow Studios @ 4434 30th St, San Diego, CA

This 3 hour creative workshop will teach you the screen printing process using negative stencils and screen printing a multi-color custom design (by you) on archival paper.  All supplies are provided. Experience Level: Beginner/Intermediate

(6) Beginner 13 and older
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Art Journaling

Art on 30th @ 4434 30th St, San Diego, CA

Art Journaling can have an amazing, positive impact on your life as an artist or be used to put your thoughts down in a creative way. It’s a space where you can let loose and explore with colors, shapes, lines, new techniques and writing all at once. Some journals are more free-form and expressive, others are more of a “finished” art product. What is this one thing you need to know about art journaling? You need to know there are NO RULES!...

(35) All levels 18 and older
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Gestural Life Drawing Workshop

Art on 30th

Explore fluidity and movement in figure drawing using your whole body, not just your hand, and learn to capture a pose quickly—with energy! In this workshop, you will be introduced to the history of gestural drawing and why it is fundamental to capturing the human form. Students will create several sketches of a live clothed model. Gain experience, confidence, and knowledge with how to draw from life and capture the human body. Great for beginning...

(35) All levels 18 and older
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Color Scheme Harmony 2-week Workshop

Art on 30th @ 4434 30th Street, San Diego

In this workshop, we'll be using what we learned in Color Mixing Basics and use it to explore how to: identify color schemes choose colors that don't fight with each other recognize that the appearance of color depends on its surroundings arrange colors to discover the logic behind their interaction use transitional tones to unify colors ...and more!​ 2 Week Workshop Info:​​ All supplies provided in class fee ​All skill levels...

(35) All levels 18 and older
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$165

8 sessions

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Book It! Abstract Mixed Media

Art on 30th @ 4434 30th Street, San Diego

Create abstract mixed media artworks using nothing but an old book! Tearing up a classic can feel like sacrilege, but destruction can engender creation. By re-purposing something worn, old and closed we can create something new, vibrant and open. In this class, you will learn: basic collage techniques for mixed media principles of composition experiment with design, value, and color develop unity, balance, and harmony in your art Students...

(35) All levels 18 and older
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$165

4 sessions

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Abstract Trompe L'Oeil

Prima Materia Institute

Abstract Trompe L'Oeil is an illusionistic technique that will trick viewers into thinking objects are floating above your canvas. If you love contemporary art, you'll enjoy this class. The three day workshop will give you enough time to create a refined painting of our own that will impress your friends.  Part 1 - Learn about trompe l'oeil through examples, demonstrations, and a hands on project. Create a study to learn how dimension...

(3) All levels 18 and older
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Online Summer Art Camp:Extraordinary Desserts on Canvas

Prima Materia Institute

Become a creator of something that everyone wants - the desserts that no one can say no to. Learn a technique of how to paint and draw cakes - as a treat to yourself, a visual delight for your kitchen or dining room, or as a unique gift for your family or friends for any special occasion. Supply List: For Drawing 9x12in Drawing pad (or any size you’d like) Set of drawing materials (the set does not include drawing pad) Workable Fixative Spray ...

(3) All levels 11 - 18 years old
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Online Summer Art Camp: The Next Shiny Object

Prima Materia Institute

This expression is often used as a metaphor for “getting easily distracted”, but we will take it literally. Learn to paint and draw shiny objects - that are considered to be only possible to the “professional level” of skills: silver and gold, highly polished surfaces, sparkling eyes, and raindrops on leaves or flower petals.  Find out how easy it is to create the shine - it is the technique that makes it possible: after these five days...

(3) All levels 11 - 18 years old
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Online Summer Art Camp: Great Masters

Prima Materia Institute

Online Summer Art Camp: Great Masters, Meet Contemporary Teens Paintings by the Great Masters are awesome. They will teach us how to compose, draw, and paint realistically. Recreate their work in your own way, invite their characters into the 21st century, treat them with our fast food, give them a box of french fries and a coke, hand them a cell phone, earphones, a player, and a pair of sneakers, and let them wear your beanie. Transform that historic...

(3) All levels 11 - 18 years old
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Out of Chaos: Principles of Composition 2-week Workshop

Art on 30th

In this 2-week workshop, we will be exploring the Principles of Composition to create successful abstract art. “Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for color, and that you be a true poet. The last is essential.” ~Wassily Kandinsky While creating abstract art is a highly intuitive process that takes practice to master, there is a “method to the madness”...

(35) All levels 18 and older
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Abstract Drawing

Art on 30th @ 4434 30th Street, San Diego

This is not your grandmother's drawing class. Get loose in this unconventional drawing class using a variety of drawing tools and materials on paper. ​You may not realize it, but you draw all the time. When you sign your name, when you draw a map, cross something out, or doodle on scrap paper. Drawing is a powerful and wonderful language, capable of expressing things not easily conveyed in other mediums. Drawing can also be very expressive:...

(35) All levels 18 and older
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$135

3 sessions

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Screen Printing 2 Day Workshop

Kiss A Cow Studios @ 4434 30th St, San Diego, CA

This is a creative screen printing workshop where the participants will design and print on fabric, wood, canvas, paper and/or other substrate. You will learn the screen printing process and be ready to print your own design on day two. Day One: We will be printing 3 color cards or mini posters using process colors and begin creating your design or photo for day two. Day Two: You will be printing your design or high contrast photo that you prepared...

(6) All levels 13 and older
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$85

2 sessions

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How to Draw Plants

Art on 30th

Would you like to feel confident when drawing plants? Nancy will teach you the steps to drawing petals and leaves through skeletal structure, fleshing in, correcting your illustration through a layering process. You'll learn tips and tricks such as how to draw a curling leaf or petal, symmetry, and more. We'll work in graphite pencil during this three-hour class. You leave with the fundamentals of plant drawing approaches which can be applied to...

(35) All levels 18 and older
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Children's Picture Book Illustrations

Art on 30th

Begin your journey into the world of picture books with author and illustrator, Andrea Zuill! This is a fun 2-part workshop: Part One - Picture book facts and business ​Part Two - Creating artwork for picture books Supply List: Sketchpad, any size Pen for taking notes and drawing Please Note: All skill levels welcome Students are encouraged to bring a drink and snacks ​​Student parking available in back lot

(35) All levels 18 and older
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Faux Watercolor with Acrylics 2-Week Workshop

Art on 30th

Try your hand at fluid washes and watercolor techniques using only acrylic paints and mediums! Drips, spatters, staining, and washes...they draw us in and transport us to our favorite beaches, rivers, and lakes. I love these techniques because it allows for the colors to have such depth and luminosity with little effort. Learn how to create quick and easy abstracts on canvas using special effects that are typically used in watercolors. Students...

(35) All levels 18 and older
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Colorful Coastal Landscapes

Art on 30th

Learn to paint the California Coastline using Joe's approach to color: bright, bold and unexpected! In this workshop, you’ll learn the artist's specific techniques and how to take an ordinary image and transform it into something extraordinary. Learn about valuable art principles and important techniques focused on cliffs, water, skies, etc., while we work through and complete a finished piece. Paint from supplied reference images or bring your...

(35) All levels 18 and older
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Abstract Drawing: Level 1

Art on 30th @ 4434 30th St, San Diego, CA

This is not your grandmother's drawing class. Get loose in this unconventional drawing class using a variety of drawing tools and materials on paper. The earliest civilizations created abstractions through shapes and pattern. The 20th Century brought abstract art to Western culture through Fauvism, Cubism, and Abstract Expressionism. Abstract Drawing extended the creative practices performed throughout history. Drawing is a way for anyone, regardless...

(35) Beginner 18 and older
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$99

3 sessions

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